Greetings to all; I replaced Etch with a fresh install of Lenny and the only major problem is with the ATH5K driver -- which is enabled by default. It will not maintain a connection to my home network (no security).
The behavior is rather strange, as it will connect (with a reading of 100% when I am in my office next to the router), and after a short time the network manager (Gnome) will drop to 0%. Sometimes it will reconnect when a page request is made -- sometimes not, and frequently the Icon on the taskbar will disappear and not return until the system is rebooted. It seems to be able to maintain a wired connection. Are there some setting I can check? Searching for answers have only led me to people suggesting that ATH5K be blacklisted, and that the Madwifi driver be used (it worked very well with Etch). I've also seen a reference to using "Wicd" as a network manager because people have encountered problems with the Atheros chip set, but I'm not familiar with that program. Help would be appreciated... As I have been using Etch on several machines since its stable release I'm not exactly new to Debian -- but I don't consider myself an expert either. Thanks Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
